Review Request Compliance Checker
Paste your current review-request message, or describe how you ask customers for Google reviews, and get a pass/fail check against Google's own review policy rules — with exactly how to fix anything flagged.
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Get Google reviews on autopilot
BizGo's Review Engine sends every customer a friendly WhatsApp check-in and review request automatically — no manual follow-up, no filtering, fully compliant with Google's policies.
Google can suspend your review profile for how you ask, not just what you post
Most businesses know posting fake reviews is against Google's rules. Far fewer realize that HOW you ask real customers for reviews can also be a policy violation — and getting flagged for review gating, incentivizing reviews, or asking employees to post can result in reviews being removed or, in serious cases, your ability to collect reviews being restricted. These rules aren't obscure: they're Google's own stated policy, but the flows that violate them (like "only ask happy-looking customers") often sound perfectly reasonable to a business owner who's just trying to protect their rating.
Four rules, checked the same way every time
This free tool checks your review-request message or flow description against 4 fixed Google review-policy rules — sentiment gating (routing customers differently based on how happy they seem before asking), incentives (offering rewards for reviews), employee/family reviews (asking people connected to the business to post), and selective asking (not sending the same request to every customer). The 4 rules are written directly into the check every single time, so you get a consistent pass/fail verdict rather than a vague general opinion — and for anything flagged, you get a specific explanation of what's wrong and exactly how to fix it.
Paste your exact review-request message, or just describe your flow in plain language (e.g. "we only send the review link to customers who rate us 4 or 5 stars in a private survey first") — either works.
The compliant way to ask: same link, every customer
The simplest way to stay compliant is the one Google actually recommends: send the exact same review request, with the exact same link, to every customer — no pre-screening, no filtering by predicted sentiment, and no rewards attached. It feels riskier to some owners (what if an unhappy customer sees the link too?), but it's both the compliant approach and, in practice, the one that builds a genuinely trustworthy rating over time. This is exactly how BizGo's Review Engine is built — compliant by design, same link to every customer, no manual filtering required. See the box above to set it up.
Frequently Asked Questions
Review gating means routing customers differently based on how happy they seem before asking for a review — e.g. only sending happy-looking customers to leave a public Google review. Google's policy requires every customer to be offered the same path to review you.
Sentiment gating, incentivized reviews, employee/family reviews, and selective asking — all written directly into every check for a consistent verdict.
Yes — plain-language descriptions of your flow work fine, e.g. "we text customers a link after a job is done, everyone gets the same message."
Yes, completely free with no login required, up to a daily limit. Create a free BizGo account for higher daily limits.
Each flagged rule comes with a specific explanation of the issue and exactly how to fix it — usually by removing the filtering step and sending the same review link to every customer.
